6–11 Sept 2025
Technische Universität Berlin
Europe/Berlin timezone

Gently Retiring KWallet

6 Sept 2025, 18:05
10m
Room 1

Room 1

Fast Track Talk KDE Development

Speaker

Marco Martin

Description

KWallet is getting near its retiring time: its C++ API is marked as deprecated in order to be replaced by a new DBus API, called Secret Service. Although KWallet can provide a Secret Service API, its technical implementation is quite old and different people have different preferences about what Secret Service to use. It's also a good occasion for trying to use a common backend between different desktops.

The talk will show the recent split that has been done and the kwallet compatibility daemon and shown how to use alternative Secret Service providers, such as oo7 or KeepassXC, with legacy KWallet integration.

Biography

Marco Martin has been contributing to KDE since 2007, mostly on the Plasma and Kirigami projects,he is one of the maintainers of both and is a kind of "historic memory" for them

Social Links

https://notmart.org

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